Chappell Roan is responding to claims that her security left Brazilian soccer star Jorginho’s 11-year-old daughter in tears following an incident at a São Paulo hotel.
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The 28-year-old pop star, who performed at Lollapalooza Brazil on Saturday (March 21), took to her Instagram Story Sunday morning to share her side of the story after Jorginho posted on social media that his daughter was “extremely shaken” when a security guard allegedly confronted her and her mother during breakfast, accusing the child of “harassment” simply for recognizing the singer and smiling.
“I’m just going to tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard — who is not my personal security,” Roan said, lying in bed at the start of her video.
“I didn’t even see,” she continued. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, I did not. No one came up to me. No one bothered me. Like, I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel as well.”
Roan added, “I did not ask the security guard to go up to talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything. It’s unfair for security to just assume someone doesn’t have good intentions. When they have no reason to believe, because there’s no action even taken.”
The pop star concluded her message, assuring viewers, “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. That is crazy. I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
In his post on Instagram, Jorginho said his wife, Catherine Harding, and 11-year-old daughter were staying at a São Paulo hotel ahead of Roan’s headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil when they spotted the singer at the hotel restaurant during breakfast.
“My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” the midfielder shared, noting she didn’t approach Roan or ask for anything.
He claimed the encounter quickly escalated when a security guard allegedly confronted his family, speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” and accusing his daughter of “disrespect” and harassment, even threatening to file a complaint with the hotel, leaving his daughter “extremely shaken” and in tears.
The incident follows Roan’s recent experiences with unwanted attention from fans and photographers. Earlier this month, she was seen self-documenting a chaotic encounter with autograph seekers and photographers in Paris.
“I’m just trying to go to dinner, and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me,” she said to her phone in the video, uploaded by an onlooker. “These are all the people that are completely disregarding my boundaries,” she added later in the clip.
While many have applauded Roan for standing up to paparazzi harassment, Boy George wrote on X in early March that she should “own your fame” and to “cheer up girl. The world is at your feet stop kicking it!” He added, “boundaries are boring” and encouraged her to “break them with the magic of kindness.”
Others have come to Roan’s defense. Folk-rock singer/songwriter Noah Kahan recently took to his Instagram Stories to support the “Pink Pony Club” singer.
“Maybe they should just idk leave her alone?” Kahan wrote in his first post. In a follow-up video, he elaborated on his disdain for paparazzi behavior, sharing his own experiences. “These people literally find out where you’re staying, where you’re flying in to, where your team, family, whoever is staying. They are clearly not your fans, they just sit outside places so they can try to guilt you into signing s–t so they can sell it,” he said.
